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[Hammerhead]

I've recently started to learn how to play dwarf fortress, have watched multiple tutorials and figured out quite a bit of things. Now i've struck a problem which i cant seem to solve on my own and would need some advice. The problem concerns about Labor, i have some miners, woodcutters, farmers etc. But when i build a new building that needs something that i currently dont have people proficient at. How can i educate someone for that?

The current problem is that i'm trying to farm, but i need Potash, and i tried to build Ashery, but it says that i need Potash maker or Lye maker, and i dont have either. I tried finding a dwarf, farmer, u --> farmer --> c --> l --> and here i have the list of labors, Mining, Woodworking etc etc. pressing enter enables or disables the selected profession, but i cant shuffle between the labors, when i press key arrows for up and down it moves the X on the map, and not on the labor list.

So pls can anyone help me?

[Haymaker]

Try - and + signs! They're used for the "secondary" navigation.

[Hammerhead]

Argh, that solves it, and so easy. Or atleast now i enabled the profession there. Thank you.

[Hammerhead]

But another question, it reads in the help that Potash is not "required" for farming, just improves it, but it says to me when i try to farm that it's cancelled because i dont have potash.

[TolyK]

try turning off fertilizer and Seas Fert
it's basically useless right now

[Torgan]

But another question, it reads in the help that Potash is not "required" for farming, just improves it, but it says to me when i try to farm that it's cancelled because i dont have potash.

Your farmer will just be cancelling the spread potash task, he will still carry out the planting task.

If you press t and put the cursor over the farm plot you will see what's in the building - you should be able to see the seeds that have been planted or the plants that have grown.